A focus game in the NBA regular season, the Toronto Raptors played at home to the New York Knicks. In the end, the Raptors won 120-105 against their opponents by 15 points. After this game, the Raptors won two consecutive games, and the record became 16-17, ranking ninth in the East. The Knicks, on the other hand, suffered two consecutive defeats, ranking 11th in the East with 17 wins and 20 losses.
After the opening, the first quarter of the game, the Raptors entered the state quickly, chopping melons and cutting vegetables to stop the opponent 13-1, easily getting a double-digit advantage. But the Knicks were tough and came back to fight back, quickly closing in on the scoreline. At the end of the first quarter, the Raptors narrowly won by 3 points at 30-27. In the second quarter, the Raptors struck again, blasting an 8-0 frenzy and widening to double digits. This time the suspension came back, the Knicks failed to stage a counterattack, and they were beaten 0-7, and then called a timeout. In the final quarter, the Raptors won 26-18 by eight points, leading by 11 points at halftime.
Easy side to fight again, 10 points into a threshold, the two sides back and forth saw, you come and go, fight fiercely. In the middle, the Raptors shot 3 consecutive three-pointers, and finally stretched the point difference to more than 20 points, and finally in this quarter, the Raptors blasted 40 points + net win 11 points, with a 22-point lead into the final quarter. In the fourth quarter, it was basically garbage time, and the mid-section Raptors replaced the main force after a wave of 6-0, and the two sides tacitly accepted this result.
Both sides are five-man in double figures, but on the Raptors side, two of them play particularly well. One is "Van Jordan" Van Vleet, who played just 30 minutes, shooting 11 of 17, 7 of 13 from three-point range, 6 of 6 from the free throw line, and cut 35 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. The other was Siakam, who made 7-of-15 shooting in the 35 minutes and scored 20 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists, but the fly in the ointment was that there were 6 turnovers.
The Knicks are also a remnant, although Fournier scored 20 points, Andipin and Barrett both scored 19 points, but unfortunately it was not explosive enough. These two teams, before are the East's strong, the Raptors from the championship to the current decline, the Knicks from last season to the top four dark horses, now almost at the bottom, people sigh. This year, there are many strong teams in the East, and the average, 50% win rate can only rank eighth.